Do the gospels according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke discreetly but clearly imply that Jesus is God? This has become a popular reading lately among evangelicals. In this 2-hour long interview, J. R. Daniel Kirk presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine God who has descended from the heavens, but as an idealized human figure: a man attested by God.
One surprising aspect of Jesus’s ministry is his authority to forgive sins. But as Dr. Kirk explains, the text itself (Mark 2:10) presents Jesus as an extraordinary man who has been granted this authority by God. Throughout the book, Dr. Kirk distinguishes identifying Jesus with God from identifying Jesus as God. The discussion clarifies this distinction and Dr. Kirk’s contention that the synoptics frequently do the former but, contra Bauckham and others, never do the latter.
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Author: Dale Tuggy
Keywords: trinitarianism, Tri-unity, Jesus is God, God the Son, Trinity, Trinitarian, Deity of Christ, Deity of Jesus, Triunity, Three in one, Three gods, Three gods one person, Three persons, Triune, Three persons in one God, eternal sonship, god manifest in the flesh, God incarnate, incarnation, incarnate, God made flesh, God manifestation, eternal son, eternal son of God, Christology, Christologies, Jesus is divine, Christ is divine, God in three persons, divinity of Jesus, divinity of Christ
Bible reference(s): Matthew 9:6, Matthew 9:8, Mark 1:2-3, Mark 2:10, Mark 2:12, Luke 5:24, Acts 2:22, Isaiah 9:6, Matthew 28:19, John 1:1-3, John 1:14, John 1:18, Joh 10:30, Joh 17:3, Joh 20:28
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